Support for suspended-cable-track roads.



Patented Aug. I9, I902.

H. M. HARDING. SUPPORT FOR SUSPENDED CABLE TRACK ROADS.

(Application filed Dec. 92, 1899.)

I (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PAT NT- OFFICE.

HENRY M. HARDING, OF NEW YORK, NJ Y.

SUPPORT FOR SUSPENDED-CABLE-TRACK ROADS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,228, dated August 19, 1902. Application filed December 22, 1899. Serial No. 741,222. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that L'HENRY M. HARDING, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brackets or Supports for Suspended-Oable-Track Roads in Connection with Suspended Trucks or Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in brackets for suspended-cable roads, whereby the bracket for supporting the wire cable is pivoted so as to permit the ends of that portion of the brackets coming directly beneath the wire cable to have an up-and-down or seesaw motion, or, if desired, the whole bracket can be made to turn. In addition the ends of the portion of the bracket under the wire are made slightly flexible, so as to yield to the weight of the carer truck comingupon it. The cable is used for a track and is stationary.

The object of my improvements is to provide for the smooth running of thetruck or car-as it passes along the wire cable over the brackets.

I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is an elevation showing a side view of the portion of the bracket directly beneath porting the wire cable and attached to it by the wire cable in which is the improvement, showing its position when the weight of the car is not over the end of the movable portion of the bracket and the dotted lines when the car is over the end of the movable portion of the bracket. Fig. 2 is top view or plan showing the post to which the bracket is attached, the supporting part of the bracket extending from the post to the flexible or movable part of the bracket directly under the wire cable. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section at the center of the bracket transversely with the direction of the cable.

In Fig. 1, S A B A S is the end of the bracket, being that portion directly beneath and supany of the usual methods. None of the meth ods of attaching are claimed by me. C C is the wire cable; W W, the wheels of the truck or car. P is the pivot or stud upon which the end of the bracket turns, 0' 0 being a dotted line showing position of the cable and bracket when the wheels W W are directly over it,

the end of the bracket toward the end 0 be in g not only depressed, but this portion of the bracket by being made of some flexible material, such as spring-steel, is slightly bent. X X

is line'of cross-section of Fig. 3.

In Fig. 2 is a plan view of the bracket. K is the post to which the bracket is attached. H is the connecting-support between the post K and that portion of the bracket, S A B AS 5 W W, wheels of car or truck upon the wire cable C C; J the place where the bracket is joined to the post and where the bracket can be pivoted instead of at B, ifso desired.

In Fig. 3, O is cross-section of the cable; K, the post; H, connecting-support. P is the pivot upon which the bracket turns; S, a cross-section of the bracket at X X.

The same part is designated by the same ref= erence-signs wherever it occurs throughout the several views of the drawings.

It has been found in the use of wire cable as a track upon whichto run wheels of suspended cars or trucks even at moderate rates of speed that difficulty is experienced when the Wheels pass the brackets in having the same run smoothly or in keeping the wheels upon the wire cable. By making the end portions of the bracket,which come directly beneath the cable, flexible this difficulty has been greatly reduced and a great improvement of fected. By pivoting the whole or a portion of the bracket, so thatit will turn, the're'is also obtained smooth running of the car, and the danger of the wheels leaving the wire cable is in general eliminated.

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by-Letters Patent, is

' 1. In combination witha suspended stationary wire-cable traokway, for a suspended car or truck, of a bracket, the end portions of which are constructed of elastic material making them flexible, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with a suspended stationary wire cable for -a suspended car or truck of a bracket, being both fiexible and pivoted, substantially as described.

HENRY M. HARDING.

Witnesses:

ROBERT A. BYRNS, SAMUEL D. CRAFTS. 

